It is often claimed that Africa remains poor and underdeveloped because of its corrupt leaders and Africans in general who are unwilling to take responsibility. However, what is not the most discussed is the fact that whenever a true leader adopts what is called a “nationalist agenda”, he automatically makes himself a man to kill. Many cases can be used to support this argument, for example, by examining the death of Patrice Emery Lumumba and Laurent-Désiré Kabila, one realizes that the goal, the method and the instigator have not changed. Which leads us to affirm that the current conditions of Africa are not directly linked to past European barbarism, but above all to prolonged and constant efforts to undermine any possibility of change.
Let’s start with the following case of Léonard Daro to analyze the conditions under which the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Laurent Désiré Kabila was assassinated to take stock. Contrary to what has been said so far, as a member of the European Parliament recently confessed, the death of Laurent Désiré Kabila was sponsored by the Kingdom of Belgium and executed by the United States of America. Exactly as it happened in 1960 for the assassination of Patrice Emery Lumumba. If the latter was killed just for having outraged King Baudouin of the Belgians with his speech of June 30, 1960 at the Palais de la Nation, Kabila, he died for having wanted, like Lumumba, the total independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo. For example, M’zee had a hard time digesting the fact that the prices of our raw materials were fixed by the Belgians, in Antwerp, and was preparing to take suitable measures to abolish this de facto subcontracting so that Kinshasa would become the only one to set the prices of its natural resources and to deal directly with buyers. The Belgians were afraid of losing the beefsteak that this intermediation provided them. And, as in 1960 in the case of Lumumba, they went once again to seek discharge from Uncle Sam.
In 1960, a professional killer had been appointed by the CIA to assassinate our first Prime Minister, officially accused of having wanted to bring our country into the communist bloc, nationalize the mines, and africanise the Congolese army by getting rid of Belgian officers-which was his most legitimate right, except that the history of communism had been fabricated from scratch for the needs of the cause. It is following the excess of zeal of the Government of Commissioners General led by Joseph Désiré Mobutu and one of whose members was called Etienne Tshisekedi, that Lumumba went to die at the hands of the Belgian police in Lubumbashi. In any case, had it not been for his expatriation to Katanga in full secession, it is this CIA agent who would have assassinated Lumumba in Kinshasa or Kisangani. His fate was already sealed.
With the turn of Laurent Désiré Kabila, the CIA was only to assemble the scenario and to bring the logistics necessary for its execution without any external interference. Indeed, at that time, our country, attacked by Rwanda since 1998, after the explosion of the AFDL, was already under embargo in terms of arms purchases. So much so that M’zee, who needed arms to allow the Congolese army to repel the aggressors, had resolutely turned to the black market. This was the royal road taken by the CIA to lay a trap for him. A CIA agent, of Lebanese origin, presented himself to the President of the Republic under the cap of a clandestine arms and ammunition dealer, capable of supplying large quantities of arms to the Democratic Republic of Congo. He promised, to prove his statements, to send samples of some of these weapons to Kinshasa. Which was done a few weeks later. Two cases of weapons were reported when a plane disembarked at N’djili International Airport. The Republican Guard collected them immediately and stored them in the office of the President of the Republic, at the Palais des Marbres. In one of these boxes was placed, in plain view, a loaded weapon, equipped with a silencer, which was going to be used for the dirty work. Knowing nothing of what was being plotted against him, the people’s soldier made an appointment with the Lebanese for the opening of the cash registers and the finalization of the deal.
On January 16, 2001, the Lebanese, who had arrived in Kinshasa the day before via the Beach Ngobila and had spent the night in a plot belonging to the Lebanese, on the Avenue du Commerce, in the commune of Gombe, appeared at the hearing at the Palais des Marbles. That day, Emile Mota, Deputy Director of Cabinet of the President of the Republic, was in the office of the Head of State when the Protocol announced the arrival of the Lebanese. The Head of State asked his Director of Cabinet to wait a little in the antechamber, the time for him to treat with his guest an urgent matter which concerned national security. After the usual prerequisites and M’zee had authorized him to present the weapon samples, the Lebanese opened the rigged crate, took the loaded weapon, fitted with the silencer, and shot the President of the Republic. Then, he put the weapon back in the box and quietly left the office, in full view of everyone, took his vehicle to the parking lot in the direction of Beach Ngobila from where a boat landed him in Brazzaville. Before Kinshasa realized what had just happened, he was already on a plane for the West.
While the Deputy Director of Cabinet was still waiting in the antechamber for the President to call him back to continue their discussions on state affairs, came Rachidi, the bodyguard who entered directly into the presidential office. When he realized what had happened, he panicked and ran back. “they have killed M’zee” he repeated running. His colleagues, tried to stop him to find out more, but to no avail. One of them shot him in the legs which immobilized him. Everyone ran to listen to him, then they rushed to the office of the President to see the veracity of his statements. So, they radioed their Commander who was somewhere in town. When he arrived, when he was told of the events, his reaction was most disturbing. First, he asked to see Rachidi, whom he finished off with a bullet to the head. Then, at the head of a platoon, he descended on the avenue du commerce, in the plot where the assassin of M’zee had spent the night and massacred everyone: men, women and children included, acts which presented, before the courts, as an accomplice trying to erase the traces.
As we can clearly see, it is the Kingdom of Belgium, a colonizing country, and the United States of America, a country which had created the Democratic Republic of Congo, which, paradoxically, joined forces to fiercely oppose its development. It seems that for them, the Congo is simply an open market, a reserve of raw materials for the West.
In fact, the DRC was, at the start, a group of kingdoms, empires and principalities which had signed, each on its own, commercial treaties with Henri Morton Stanley on behalf of the United States of America, and which the explorer depicted on a map that later became the Congo Free State, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. If instead of thinking of a Marshall plan to enhance the coveted natural resources of the DRC, these Western powers do everything in their power to succeed in balkanizing our territory; in their eyes, any nationalist leader who would like to dispose of the Congo’s wealth for the good of the Congolese people becomes ipso facto a target to be shot down at all costs. Americans and Belgians believe they have more rights over the Congo than the Congolese themselves. Why such ambition? In nutshell, Marcus Garvey once said that “the best protection against injustice in man is POWER”, and the journey to power cannot be done by individual countries in Africa, the power must be pursued within the guidelines of Pan-Africanism. The enemy of Africa is not only the one in the history books, but he is still alive today, pulling the strings behind the curtain to prevent any advances by Africa and black people in general. Our way out is the power through the United State of Africa, and if you are concerned about Africa and its future, you need to belong to any organization that works for the liberation and emancipation of the motherland.
Great, no need for contention